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New York City might as well be called the Big Pizza instead of the Big Apple, and Central Park is taking a rather unprecedented step toward recycling the boxes that hold that favorite pie: a recycling bin specifically designed to accept pizza boxes. “People want to do the right thing, they want to recycle, and we’re just giving them a better opportunity to do so,” Betsy Smith, the Central Park Conservancy’s chief executive, tells the New York Times. The drivers of the move: Shape: “The traditional circular waste bins are simply not designed to accommodate the boxes, leading to jammed cans that…

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